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Release Date: 1969
Cast: John Vernon, Katharine Ross, Susan Clark, Lloyd Gough, Charles Aidman, Charles McGraw, Robert Blake, Garry Walberg, Robert Lipton, Shelly Novack, Ned Romero, Barry Sullivan ...MORE
Cast: John Vernon, Katharine Ross, Susan Clark, Lloyd Gough, Charles Aidman, Charles McGraw, Robert Blake, Garry Walberg, Robert Lipton, Shelly Novack, Ned Romero, Barry Sullivan, Robert Redford ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Indian Western, Action/Adventure, Chase Movie, Western, Drama Film
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a Technicolor movie released in 1969, based on the true story of a Paiute Indian named Willie Boy and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States.
The movie was written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky. Because of his blacklisting, he had not directed a film since Force of Evil 21 years earlier in 1948.
The film's story revolves around the Paiute Indian outlaw Willie Boy (Robert Blake) who escapes with his lover, Lola (Katharine Ross) after killing her father in self defense. According to tribal custom Willie... MORE
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a Technicolor movie released in 1969, based on the true story of a Paiute Indian named Willie Boy and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States.
The movie was written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky. Because of his blacklisting, he had not directed a film since Force of Evil 21 years earlier in 1948.
The film's story revolves around the Paiute Indian outlaw Willie Boy (Robert Blake) who escapes with his lover, Lola (Katharine Ross) after killing her father in self defense. According to tribal custom Willie can then claim Lola as his wife. According to the law, Deputy Sheriff Cooper (Robert Redford) is required to charge him with murder.
Willie Boy and Lola are hunted for several days by a posse led by Cooper. Willie manages to repel the posse’s advance when he ambushes them from the top of Ruby Mountain. He only tries to shoot their horses, but ends up accidentally killing a bounty hunter, resulting in another murder charge.
Days later, as the posse closes in, Lola dies by a gunshot wound to the chest. It is left deliberately ambiguous whether Lola shot herself in order to slow down the posse's LESS
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